Abstract
Cotton-Ramie fabric/UP resin composites were formed by usinghand lay up method and cured at room temperature for 24 hours. The primarymechanical properties such as tensile strength, flexural strength, flexuralmodulus and impact strength with three different weight fraction of the ramiefibers on the composites were studied. The result shows that with the increaseof weigh fraction of ramie fibre on cotton- ramie fabric reinforced composites,all the primary mechanical properties improved. With respect to the efficiencyof strength realization in composite, the composite which contains 10% of ramiefibre gives the maximum realization. The comparison of cotton-ramie fabricreinforced composite and softwood plywood with respect to tensile strength andflexural strength provides useful information that composite which contains 10%of ramie fibre has sufficient quality to replace softwood plywood.
The authorsare associated with the Department of Textile Technology, Anna UniversityChennai
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